Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 72, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 2, 1993, 5:40 PM MDT for Baca County, Colorado. It was in force for 65 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 2, 1993, 5:40 PM MDT (23:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 2, 1993, 6:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Baca County, CO
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 240 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2015 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -83 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 8 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KPUB 022341 RRA SVRPUB COC009-030045- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 540 PM MDT MON AUG 2 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 645 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...... IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO ...BACA COUNTY AT 540 PM MDT...VERY STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS COVERED THE NORTHERN BACA COUNTY LINE NORTH OF SPRINGFIELD AND WERE MOVING SOUTH SOUTHEAST AT 15 TO 20 MPH. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE AL<ERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 2, 3:21 PM MDT, 2 hours 19 minutes before
COZ004>010-020000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALAMOSA CO 315 PM MDT MON AUG 2 1993 ...THUNDERSTORM OVER THE SOUTHERN SECTION OF THE SAN LUIS VALLEY... A THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPED OVER THE SOUTHERN SECTION OF THE SAN JUANS MOUNTAINS AND HAS MOVED INTO THE SOUTHERN SECTION OF THE SAN LUIS VALLEY. STRONG GUSTY WINDS MAY ACCOMPANY THE STORM BUT LITTLE RAINFALL IS EXPECTED FROM THE STORM. THE STORM IS ALSO CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. THE STORM IS MOVING EAST AND WILL CROSS CENTRAL CONEJOS AND COSTILLA COUNTIES BY 400 PM. PERSONS ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL COLORADO ESPECIALLY THE SOUTHERN PORTION OF THE SAN LUIS VALLEY SHOULD BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER AND MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. PROTECT YOURSELF FROM LIGHTNING THAT OCCURS BY GETTING INDOORS BEFORE THE STORM APPROACHES. REPORT ANY SEVERE WEATHER TO YOUR LOCAL OR STATE POLICE FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE...AND STAY TUNED TO THE WEATHER CHANNEL OR LOCAL NEWS MEDIA FOR ADDTIONAL STATEMENTS. BARNETT
Special weather statement, Aug 2, 3:22 PM MDT, 2 hours 18 minutes before
COC119-041-073-022200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLORADO SPRINGS CO 320 PM MDT MON AUG 2 1993 ...TORNADO WATCH UNTIL 9 PM FOR SOUTHERN EL PASO COUNTY AND SOUTHERN LINCOLN COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO... AT 320 PM...LIMON RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE IN SOUTHEAST EL PASO COUNTY COLORADO WITH THE STRONGEST STORMS ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ELLICOTT OR 30 MILES SOUTHEAST OF COLORADO SPRINGS. OTHER STORMS ARE LOCATED ABOUT 25 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LIMON IN LINCOLN COUNTY AND NEAR CRIPPLE CREEK IN TELLER COUNTY. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT ABOUT 20 MPH AND MAY PRODUCE BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...HAIL...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS. PERSONS IN SOUTHEAST EL PASO COUNTY SHOULD BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. HUBER
Special weather statement, Aug 2, 4:10 PM MDT, 1 hour 30 minutes before
COC119-041-073-022300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLORADO SPRINGS CO 410 PM MDT MON AUG 2 1993 ...TORNADO WATCH UNTIL 9 PM FOR SOUTHERN EL PASO COUNTY AND SOUTHERN LINCOLN COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO... AT 410 PM...LIMON RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE IN SOUTHERN EL PASO COUNTY...SOUTHERN TELLER COUNTY AND SOUTHERN LINCOLN COUNTY COLORADO WITH THE STRONGEST STORMS ACROSS SOUTHERN LINCOLN COUNTY 40 TO 50 MILES SOUTH OF LIMON. PEA SIZE HAIL HAS BEEN REPORTED ON THE WEST SIDE OF COLORADO SPRINGS. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT ABOUT 20 MPH AND MAY PRODUCE BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...HAIL...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS. PERSONS IN THESE COUNTIES SHOULD BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. HUBER
Special weather statement, Aug 2, 4:13 PM MDT, 1 hour 27 minutes before
COC119-041-073-022300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLORADO SPRINGS CO 410 PM MDT MON AUG 2 1993 ...TORNADO WATCH UNTIL 9 PM FOR SOUTHERN EL PASO COUNTY AND SOUTHERN LINCOLN COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO... AT 410 PM...LIMON RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE IN SOUTHERN EL PASO COUNTY...SOUTHERN TELLER COUNTY AND SOUTHERN LINCOLN COUNTY COLORADO WITH THE STRONGEST STORMS ACROSS SOUTHERN LINCOLN COUNTY 40 TO 50 MILES SOUTH OF LIMON. PEA SIZE HAIL HAS BEEN REPORTED ON THE WEST SIDE OF COLORADO SPRINGS. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT ABOUT 20 MPH AND MAY PRODUCE BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...HAIL...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS. PERSONS IN THESE COUNTIES SHOULD BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. HUBER
Special weather statement, Aug 2, 5:19 PM MDT, 21 minutes before
COC041-073-119-030015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLORADO SPRINGS CO 519 PM MDT MON AUG 2 1993 ...A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM FOR SOUTHERN LINCOLN AND SOUTHERN EL PASO COUNTIES... SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED OVER EL PASO...TELLER...AND SOUTHERN LINCOLN COUNTY THIS AFTERNOON. AT 515 PM...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS SOUTH OF A CRIPPLE CREEK...ELLICOTT ...KARVAL LINE. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED SOUTH OF YODER AND RUSH...OR 40 MILES EAST SOUTHEAST OF COLORADO SPRINGS. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THE THUNDERSTORM SOUTH OF YODER AND RUSH HAS INTENSIFIED RAPIDLY OVER SOUTHEASTERN EL PASO COUNTY DURING THE LAST 10 MINUTES...AND WILL PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...GUSTY WINDS...HAIL...AND FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. THIS STORM CONTINUES TO INTENSIFY...SO PERSONS IN THE COMMUNITY OF TRUCKTON AND SOUTHEAST EL PASO COUNTY...AS WELL AS SOUTHWESTERN LINCOLN COUNTY SHOULD BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING CONDITIONS AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE SHELTER SHOULD SEVERE WEATHER BE OBSERVED OR A WARNINF ISSUED. CONTINUE TO LISTEST INFORMATION FROM YOUR NATIONAL WEATH ER SERVICE. MAXWELL
Special weather statement, Aug 2, 5:19 PM MDT, 21 minutes before
COC041-073-119-030015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLORADO SPRINGS CO 519 PM MDT MON AUG 2 1993 ...A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM FOR SOUTHERN LINCOLN AND SOUTHERN EL PASO COUNTIES... SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED OVER EL PASO...TELLER...AND SOUTHERN LINCOLN COUNTY THIS AFTERNOON. AT 515 PM...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS SOUTH OF A CRIPPLE CREEK...ELLICOTT ...KARVAL LINE. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED SOUTH OF YODER AND RUSH...OR 40 MILES EAST SOUTHEAST OF COLORADO SPRINGS. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THE THUNDERSTORM SOUTH OF YODER AND RUSH HAS INTENSIFIED RAPIDLY OVER SOUTHEASTERN EL PASO COUNTY DURING THE LAST 10 MINUTES...AND WILL PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...GUSTY WINDS...HAIL...AND FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. THIS STORM CONTINUES TO INTENSIFY...SO PERSONS IN THE COMMUNITY OF TRUCKTON AND SOUTHEAST EL PASO COUNTY...AS WELL AS SOUTHWESTERN LINCOLN COUNTY SHOULD BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING CONDITIONS AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE SHELTER SHOULD SEVERE WEATHER BE OBSERVED OR A WARNINF ISSUED. CONTINUE TO LISTEST INFORMATION FROM YOUR NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. MAXWELL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 1, 6:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Huerfano, Pueblo | 45 min |
| Aug 2, 3:44 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Prowers | 46 min |
| Aug 2, 4:09 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 51 min |
| Aug 2, 5:05 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Bent, Kiowa | 25 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Colorado, 1993Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1993
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.